Penn State out-shot the Blue Jays by a 30-27 margin and corralled 18 ground balls to Johns Hopkins' 11. The Nittany Lions, who won 11-of-25 draws, went 1-for-6 on free-position shots and 13-of-16 on clears, while the Blue Jays finished 2-for-3 and 14-of-17, respectively.

In the first half, the teams played a tightly-fought opening 15 minutes with the score knotted at two goals apiece. After Johns Hopkins surged to a 2-0 lead, Coffey and McCormick netted markers four minutes apart at 8:28 and 12:28, respectively, to make it a 2-2 game. After McCormick's strike, Johns Hopkins responded with five goals in a 7:45 span en route to a 7-2 lead.

An Eldersburg, Md., native, McCormick brought the Nittany Lions to within four with 5:21 remaining when she took Lechner's feed to the left of the net and fired a bounce shot past Blue Jay goalkeeper Caroline Federico. The Blue Jays then ended the half with two strikes, including their final tally with 11 seconds remaining, as they grabbed a six-goal advantage.

The Nittany Lions opened the second stanza on a 4-1 run to make it a 10-7 game. Mosketti netted her 29th of the season with 21:57 left in the game after she took advantage of Federico's misplay and slipped the ball into an unoccupied net. After a Hopkins goal with 15:39 remaining, Penn State netted three quick strikes in a 3:11 span.

With 15:20 left, Coffey recorded her second of the game after cutting hard to the net and scoring. McCormick completed the hat trick 2:57 later when she drove around the net and fired a shot low. Just 14 seconds later, Cyr found Smucker cutting toward the cage.

After Smucker's tally, the team's exchanged three-goal runs to end the game. After the Blue Jays extended their lead to 13-7, Coffey brought her season goal total to 23 with 4:34 left in the game. Brent added a free-position marker with 3:13 remaining before Lechner scored with 19 seconds left on the clock to account for the 13-10 final.